Fire on the Beach

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Fire on the Beach

Postby CraigVTR on Sun Apr 19, 2009 4:31 pm

Fire twirling at Mooloolabaa Beach last Wednesday night.

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This one is my daughter.
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Re: Fire on the Beach

Postby V-man on Sun Apr 19, 2009 8:15 pm

Looks like long light Sabers :)
D200 etc
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Re: Fire on the Beach

Postby Mal on Mon Apr 20, 2009 12:03 am

I like no.1 the best. Just nice and clean.
The other ones have the waves and the sand in the BG and I find them a little distracting (just a personal thing :D )
But I do really like no.1
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Re: Fire on the Beach

Postby surenj on Mon Apr 20, 2009 3:57 pm

:agree: that the first one is a the strongest... Perhaps a closer crop.

I would prefer the last few to have a strong flash to freeze the movement of the person .... Have you seen the cover of the book "Hot Shoe Diaries" ?
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Re: Fire on the Beach

Postby CraigVTR on Tue Apr 21, 2009 6:49 pm

Thanks for the comments guys.
surenj wrote::agree: that the first one is a the strongest... Perhaps a closer crop.


Yes iam thinking of doing a square crop but do not want to lose the ring of light at his feet.

surenj wrote:I would prefer the last few to have a strong flash to freeze the movement of the person .... Have you seen the cover of the book "Hot Shoe Diaries" ?


Yes I have seen the cover, still waiting for the book to arrive at the book shop. I did use flash (rear curtain sync)and tried to replicate that type of image but the light from the flames allows the camera to record an image of the person as well as when the flash fires. The next chance I get I will try some more apeture/shutter combinations to see if I can get the right effect, or maybe i'll just take two flashes and dial them right up.
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